WP/97/2025 of PONDRATI SAVITHRI Vs THE STATE OF AP

APHC010001962025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3333] (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE V.SUJATHA WRIT PETITION NO: 97/2025 Between: Pondrati Savithri ...PETITIONER AND The State Of Ap and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner: 1. S V R SUBRAHMANYAM Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. GP FOR MUNCIPAL ADMN URBAN DEV The Court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed by the petitioner, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking Mandamus, for the following relief: “…to issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ or direction declaring the action of the 4th respondent in not issuing Death Certificate of Late Pondrati Dharma Rao as illegal, arbitrary and violation of provisions of section 17 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act (Act No.18 of 1969) and section 76 of Indian Evidence Act, 1872 and consequently direct the respondents to issue Death Certificate of Late Pondrati Dharma Rao to the petitioner…” 2. The case of the petitioner is that the petitioner married one Pondrati Dharma Rao in the year 1989 as per Hindu